Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-02


"Wuss'n ever after that, Doty wan. He
couldn't bear to soc mo lookin' no ways
docsnti he laid down that ribands and
hxin's was instruments o. the devil; he
chucked two o. my bunnsts into the stove
and tore up an alpacy Eownd. He'd 70
without tsstin' mouthful fer day to q
tlme-fastin', he give out he was-deay
knows what fer; he was skinny a. . rail 20
begin with. He got so worked up cause
stirred up mess o. fried cakes OF a Sun.
day oncet that he went of to the woods
ana stayed thar for consid'able spell.
ketched his death thar, too; he como back
clean sick. Neuralgy twas to the fust,n
said Mis- HIT with an increase OF interest
In her tone; but a drstful lot o. things sol
in-pneumony and the jsnders and blood.
pisonln' and the swellin' o. tho jints; the
doctor give in twas the wust case he'd
ever come nigh. Laid thar fer elk weeks,
Doty did out of his head the hull time,
and undergoin' such sufferip's as Ineysf
hurd the like Of; ye could hear him hoiler-
IN and groanin' clear out to the street.
terrible bad case; had as big a funeral as j
ever was to, Doty did"
Mis- HITS pipe was out; the pasture
had grown quito dark, and the noise of the
frogs was lessoning She got up aud put
her chair against the wall aud closed the
one small window near the ceiling by
means OF a broomstick. The school-master,
conscious that an ignoring of these signs
would not avail him, arose from his nail
key -
nDie tnat you VIII marry againT he
Mis- Hit put up bony hand to remove
the one hairpin from her diminutive knot,
which was apparently to be reconstructed
II don't know but what I've had bout
enough o. gittin' married." she responded
with undiminished gravity
She waited, unimprssssd, while her
visitor bowed, to shut the door behind
him.
The sehoolmaster paid another visit to
the isolated little domicile toward the
close OF his sojourn in district No. 10, in
consequence of a rumor which had como to
his ears. 1t was to the effect that 'Rastus
Carter had como back, and that he and
Mis- Hit had gone promptly to the justice
and been made man and wife.
The rumor appeared to have substantial
foundation. There were two figures in the
doorway-Mis' Hits stock of chairs he wing
been added to by one. The old woman sat
quietly smoking, hor arms folded on her
knee and her eyes resting vaguely on the
near field; the change In her condition,
possibly owing to It's lack of novelty. did
not appear to have affected hsr. The little
old man at her side, pale in comparison
with her withered darkness, struck the
schoolmaster with his resemblance to .
mushroom beside blackened toadstool (;
he had round, shining crown, with .
fringe of white hair surmounting . faded
pink face. Its placid meekness might have
led QUO to helieve that his "techniness"
and high temper were things OF the past.
The schoolmaster, with a havpting GER
tainty Of being relsgeted to the nail keg il
he went in, contented himself With bright
impression of the snail red house with the
woods for background, and the swampy
pasture for an unlimited front yard, and
with Mis- Hit and her last husband sitting
In tranquil silence in the doorway.-Detroit
Tribune.